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Bonkers Boffins, Inventors & Other Eccentric Eggheads by Paul Mason
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Barmy Biogs
Find out which world-famous inventor's last breath has been captured in a test tube, which boffin loved nothing more than a roasted armadillo for lunch, and which scientist fell in love with a pigeon. The books in the Barmy Biogs series are full of the facts that history books don't mention about some o ...Show more
Crackpot Kings, Queens & Other Daft Royals by Kay Barnham
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Barmy Biogs
Discover all about the fascinating lives of some of the most unusual, quirky and eccentric characters in world history! Learn about the Chinese emporer who hunted sea monsters, find out if Richard III really was as despicable as historians once thought, and why Ivan the Terrible really was a very scary ...Show more
Dastardly Dictators, Rulers & Other Loony Leaders by Paul Harrison
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Barmy Biogs
Discover all about the fascinating lives of some of the most unusual, quirky and eccentric characters in world history! Learn about the Persian King who ordered the sea to be whipped as punishment, find out why a thirteenth-century crusader took to the streets in his pants, and what posessed a French Qu ...Show more
Potty Painters, Writers & Other Barmy Artists by Adam Sutherland
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Barmy Biogs
Discover all about the fascinating lives of some of the most unusual, quirky and eccentric characters in world history! Learn about the horror story writer who was afraid of the dark, find out why one famous artist paid workers to dig up a corpse, and how one of Britain's most famous authors managed to ...Show more
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